Backrooms Is What Happens When Furniture Stores Hide Doors

Backrooms is about a furniture store that did not parent its door correctly.

I was eating during some parts, but I got the important wrong part.

The movie says a strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. People hear this and run into horror. Chud hears this and asks where was the couch when the door was young.

A doorway does not just become strange in one day. Somebody lets it. Maybe a recliner said do what you want. Maybe a coffee table was busy being low. Maybe the sectional was too sectional to provide structure. All I know is that furniture was present and supervision was not.

The back rooms are yellow and endless and everybody calls them liminal. I do not use that word unless I am sick. To me they are just hallways that never got told dinner is ready.

This is what happens when a store sells fake living rooms but refuses to live with the consequences. You make one hundred pretend families in one room, then the basement grows a door with abandonment issues. Of course it leads to trouble. It was raised under discount lighting. I kept this in my notes twice, once spelled different.

The people in the film act scared of the maze. Wrong emotion. They should be disappointed in the ottomans. Ottomans sit there all day with no backs and still think they are furniture leaders. This is where I started getting mad at the prop department.

I kept waiting for a manager to come down and say, door, you are not allowed to swallow customers until after inventory. Nobody says it. That is why the building keeps making more building.

Backrooms is scary, yes, because Chud also fears beige places that keep going. But the real lesson is simple. If a strange doorway appears under your showroom, do not enter it. Put a couch in time-out and ask who taught the doorway to behave like that.

This is why I should be allowed at press screenings earlier.